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Yankee Mission
- Thomas Kydd, Book 25
- By: Julian Stockwin
- Narrated by: Christian Rodska
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
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Two colonial masters of India and the East Indies face each other in mortal striving for the region—there can be only one victor to hold all the spoils....
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Not a particularly good story
- By Scott Berens on 11-10-2022
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Light in the Shadows
- A Novel
- By: Linda Lafferty, Andy Stone
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
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In seventeenth-century Rome, an arrogant and reckless artist named Caravaggio drinks and brawls his way through his violent, insatiable life, all while painting some of the world’s greatest religious works of art. But it is his bitter feud with Giovanni Roero that is his fatal error....
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The Chocolate Maker's Wife
- By: Karen Brooks
- Narrated by: Willow Nash
- Length: 20 hrs and 56 mins
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When Rosamund Tomkins enters the world with her darkling eyes and strange laughter, the midwives are afraid, believing her a changeling. But Rosamund's life is set to be anything but enchanted....
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Values
- By Anonymous User on 18-03-2024
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The Mapmaker's Daughter
- By: Clare Marchant
- Narrated by: Charlotte Strevens
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
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When thirty-six-year-old Robyn Willoughby discovers a blood-stained Tudor map in her father’s antique map shop, desperate for a distraction from her problems, she decides to investigate. But as Robyn delves into the mystery, she finds herself caught up in a centuries-old secret....
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Lady's Rock
- By: Sue Lawrence
- Narrated by: Angela Ness
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
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Highland Scotland was no place for a woman in the early 1500s. Life was turbulent and short, battles were waged, and sisters and daughters were traded as pawns in marriage. Catherine Campbell was one such young bride...
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The Far Pavilions
- By: M. M. Kaye
- Narrated by: Vineeta Rishi, Blake Ritson, Ayesha Dharker
- Length: 4 hrs and 33 mins
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A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of M.M. Kaye’s epic novel of love and war....
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Yankee Mission
- Thomas Kydd, Book 25
- By: Julian Stockwin
- Narrated by: Christian Rodska
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
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Two colonial masters of India and the East Indies face each other in mortal striving for the region—there can be only one victor to hold all the spoils....
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Not a particularly good story
- By Scott Berens on 11-10-2022
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Light in the Shadows
- A Novel
- By: Linda Lafferty, Andy Stone
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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In seventeenth-century Rome, an arrogant and reckless artist named Caravaggio drinks and brawls his way through his violent, insatiable life, all while painting some of the world’s greatest religious works of art. But it is his bitter feud with Giovanni Roero that is his fatal error....
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The Chocolate Maker's Wife
- By: Karen Brooks
- Narrated by: Willow Nash
- Length: 20 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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When Rosamund Tomkins enters the world with her darkling eyes and strange laughter, the midwives are afraid, believing her a changeling. But Rosamund's life is set to be anything but enchanted....
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Values
- By Anonymous User on 18-03-2024
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The Mapmaker's Daughter
- By: Clare Marchant
- Narrated by: Charlotte Strevens
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
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When thirty-six-year-old Robyn Willoughby discovers a blood-stained Tudor map in her father’s antique map shop, desperate for a distraction from her problems, she decides to investigate. But as Robyn delves into the mystery, she finds herself caught up in a centuries-old secret....
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Lady's Rock
- By: Sue Lawrence
- Narrated by: Angela Ness
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
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Highland Scotland was no place for a woman in the early 1500s. Life was turbulent and short, battles were waged, and sisters and daughters were traded as pawns in marriage. Catherine Campbell was one such young bride...
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The Far Pavilions
- By: M. M. Kaye
- Narrated by: Vineeta Rishi, Blake Ritson, Ayesha Dharker
- Length: 4 hrs and 33 mins
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A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of M.M. Kaye’s epic novel of love and war....
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A Plague of Serpents
- Daniel Pursglove, Book 4
- By: K. J. Maitland
- Narrated by: Matt Addis
- Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
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London, 1608. Three years after the Gunpowder Treason, the King's enemies prepare to strike again. Daniel Pursglove is tasked by royal command with one final mission: he must infiltrate the Serpents - a secret group of Catholics plotting to kill the King - or risk his own execution....
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The Weather Woman
- By: Sally Gardner
- Narrated by: Sophie Roberts
- Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
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The rich and atmospheric new novel from prize-winning author Sally Gardner, set in the 18th century between the two great Frost Fairs....
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Tom Swan and the Keys of Saint Peter
- By: Christian Cameron
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 16 hrs and 24 mins
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Tom Swan and his friends are trying to save Europe from the Turks, but most of his adversaries seem to be other Europeans. This time, an unnamed cabal is trying to kill him and, incidentally, ruin the banks and trade of England, France and Italy....
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The Medici: Bankers, Gangsters, Popes
- A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Drama
- By: Mike Walker
- Narrated by: full cast, Patrick Baladi, Sirine Saba, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
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Florence, 1415. Banker Cosimo Medici is looked down upon as a jumped up money-changer. Then he marries the noble Contessina de Bardi and becomes the richest man in Europe. But his wealth and power threaten the Florentine elite, who are determined to bring him down....
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Thunderer
- Thomas Kydd, Book 24
- By: Julian Stockwin
- Narrated by: Christian Rodska
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
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1812. Arriving back in England after his successes in the Adriatic, Captain Sir Thomas Kydd is bestowed with honours. In London, he's greeted by the Prince Regent, who, despite Kydd's protestations that he's happy with his present command, insists he be given a bigger ship....
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disappointing
- By M on 12-12-2021
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The Pleasure Palace
- Secrets of the Tudor Court #1
- By: Kate Emerson
- Narrated by: Alison Larkin
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
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Beautiful. Seductive. Innocent. Jane Popyncourt was brought to the court as a child to be ward of the king and a companion to his daughters - the princesses Margaret and Mary....
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To the Eastern Seas
- Thomas Kydd 22
- By: Julian Stockwin
- Narrated by: Christian Rodska
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
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Perfect for fans of Patrick O'Brian, Bernard Cornwell and swashbuckling adventure during the great Age of Sail: To the Eastern Seas is the 22nd novel in Julian Stockwin's acclaimed Thomas Kydd series....
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The Poison Keeper
- An Enthralling Historical Novel of Renaissance Italy (Italian Renaissance Series)
- By: Deborah Swift
- Narrated by: Diana Croft
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
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Giulia Tofana longs for more responsibility in her mother’s apothecary business, but Mamma has always been secretive and refuses to tell her the hidden keys to her success....
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City of Vengeance
- Cesare Aldo Series
- By: D. V. Bishop
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
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Florence. Winter, 1536. A prominent Jewish moneylender is murdered in his home, a death with wide implications in a city powered by immense wealth....
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The Queen’s Lady
- By: Joanna Hickson
- Narrated by: Sophie Bentinck
- Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins
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As lady-in-waiting and confidante to Queen Elizabeth, wife of Henry VII, Joan understands royal patronage is vital if she and her husband, Sir Richard, are to thrive in the volatile atmosphere of court life....
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The Book of Eve
- A spellbinding tale of magic and mystery
- By: Meg Clothier
- Narrated by: Amalia Vitale
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
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Beatrice is the convent's librarian. For years, she has shunned the company of her sisters, finding solace only with her manuscripts....
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Pretty good
- By Anonymous User on 24-11-2023
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The Last Jew
- By: Noah Gordon
- Narrated by: Phillip Church
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
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The Last Jew is a glimpse of the past, an authentic tale of high adventure, and a tender and unforgettable love story....
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Ritual of Fire
- Cesare Aldo, Book 3
- By: D. V. Bishop
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 14 hrs and 41 mins
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Set during a scorching Italian summer, Ritual of Fire is a historical crime novel set in 1530s Renaissance Florence and is the sequel to City of Vengeance and The Darkest Sin....
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Very Entertaining
- By Anonymous User on 12-07-2023
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A Daughter of Fair Verona
- By: Christina Dodd
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
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At our betrothal ball—where, quite by accident, I meet a beautiful young man who makes me wonder if perhaps there is something to love at first sight—I stumble upon Duke Stephano with a dagger in his chest. But who killed him?
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The Rules Upheld by No One
- By: Amie McNee
- Narrated by: Amie McNee
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
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There is no dowry left for Elisabeth Knolly. She is destined for a nunnery, for eternal chastity – which is a good thing – because she doesn’t want to do that with anyone. But the devil is at her back, tempting her with impure thoughts about her tutor, Samuel....
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Fantastic Tale
- By Lush Evers on 31-01-2024
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The Eyes of the Queen
- An Agents of the Crown Novel, Book 1
- By: Oliver Clements
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
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In this first novel of the exhilarating Agents of the Crown series, a man who will become the original MI6 agent protects England and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth I from Spain’s nefarious plan to crush the Age of the Enlightenment....
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I Promessi Sposi
- By: Alessandro Manzoni
- Narrated by: Moro Silo
- Length: 26 hrs and 25 mins
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"I promessi sposi" è un capolavoro della letteratura Italiana scritto nel XIX secolo da Alessandro Manzoni e uno dei romanzi storici più importanti...
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Kemp: The Castle in the Marsh
- Arrows of Albion, Book 3
- By: Jonathan Lunn
- Narrated by: Simon Mattacks
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
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France, 1351: Kemp and his men are captured in a skirmish near Calais, and subsequently imprisoned in a French castle. All attempts at escape are punished with death.
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Masquerade Gold
- Golden Trilogy
- By: Dion Mayne, Paul Richardson
- Narrated by: Roger Ringrose
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
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In 16th-century Europe, as countries extend their global reach, an Anglo-Dutch allegiance sets out to undermine and bring down the Spanish Empire....
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The Sabbatical
- A Novel
- By: Michael D. O'Brien
- Narrated by: Kevin O'Brien
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
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Dr. Whitfield is looking forward to a sabbatical year of peace and quiet when he is drawn by a series of seeming coincidences into involvement with a group of characters from across Europe. The situation in which he finds himself becomes more sinister than it first seemed....
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The Borgia Confessions
- A Novel
- By: Alyssa Palombo
- Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky, Tim Campbell
- Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins
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Alyssa Palombo's captivating new novel, The Borgia Confessions, is a story of passion, politics, and class, set against the rise and fall of one of Italy's most infamous families - the Borgias....
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Daughter of the King
- Defying the Crown, Book 1
- By: Kerry Chaput
- Narrated by: Marie Hathaway
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
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Fierce Protestant Isabelle is desperate to escape persecution by the Catholic King. Isabelle is tortured and harassed, her people forced to convert to the religion that rules the land. She accepts her fate—until she meets a handsome Catholic soldier who makes her question everything....
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The Virgins of Venice
- A Novel
- By: Gina Buonaguro
- Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
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In sixteenth-century Venice, one young noblewoman dares to resist the choices made for her.
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enchanting book- a delight for historical fiction fans
- By Charlie on 16-11-2023
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Rivers of Treason
- Daniel Pursglove, Book 3
- By: K. J. Maitland
- Narrated by: Matt Addis
- Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
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From the stark Yorkshire landscape to the dark underbelly of Jacobean London, Daniel Pursglove's new mission sees him fall prey to a ruthless copycat killer....
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A Plague of Serpents
- Daniel Pursglove, Book 4
- By: K. J. Maitland
- Narrated by: Matt Addis
- Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
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London, 1608. Three years after the Gunpowder Treason, the King's enemies prepare to strike again. Daniel Pursglove is tasked by royal command with one final mission: he must infiltrate the Serpents - a secret group of Catholics plotting to kill the King - or risk his own execution. But other conspirators are circling, men who would blackmail Daniel for their own dark ends. In the Serpents' den, nothing is quite as it seems. And when Daniel spies a familiar face among their number, the game takes a dangerous turn.
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The Rest of His Days
- By: Pamela Taylor
- Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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When Sir Guy promised Will's dying mother he'd look after her son, he couldn't imagine where that oath would lead. So he takes Will on as a man-at-arms for the worst job in England—guarding the deposed king. Will's fondness for making friends in the tavern and for the occasional company of barmaids runs contrary to Guy's personal code of honor-devotion to God and king. But the young man is a competent soldier and well-liked, so Guy settles for the occasional, public admonishment to keep the others from going down what he considers Will's path of dissolution.
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Lady's Rock
- By: Sue Lawrence
- Narrated by: Angela Ness
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Highland Scotland was no place for a woman in the early 1500s. Life was turbulent and short, battles were waged, and sisters and daughters were traded as pawns in marriage. Catherine Campbell was one such young bride, betrothed to Lachlan Maclean and sent from her fine home to join him on the Isle of Mull, to bear his sons and heirs. But Lachlan proved to be nothing like the man of Catherine’s dreams, and she was forced to resign herself to enduring life with him for the sake of duty. Until the day when he threatened to take away the one thing she couldn’t sacrifice: her daughter.
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The Serpent and the Rose
- A Novel
- By: Catherine Butterfield
- Narrated by: Catherine Butterfield
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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In 16th century France, Marguerite de Valois is growing up in one of Europe's most dysfunctional families - the Medici clan. Their extreme inbreeding has led to an alarming number of genetic defects in France's kings. Marguerite alone has escaped this curse. Uncharacteristically beautiful, intelligent, and sane, she is seen as a useful pawn by her mother, Catherine de Medici. In a scheme to unite the country during the raging religious wars, the queen decides to marry her Catholic daughter to Protestant Henri, Prince of Navarre, a charming libertine.
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False Mistress
- Marwood Family Tudor Saga, Book 3
- By: Amy Licence
- Narrated by: Esther Wane
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Thomasin Marwood is one of Queen Catherine's ladies-in-waiting at the court of Henry VIII, and she does not trust Lady Anne Boleyn. But when an accident forces Thomasin and her family to take refuge at the Boleyn family home at Hever Castle, Thomasin is entrusted with an unexpected mission by Anne's mother.
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The Book of Secrets
- By: Anna Mazzola
- Narrated by: Genevieve Gaunt
- Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Rome, 1659. Months after the plague has ravaged Rome, men are still dying in unnatural numbers, and rumour has it that their corpses do not decay as they should. The Papal authorities commission prosecutor Stefano Bracchi to investigate, telling him he will need considerable mettle to reach the truth. To the west of the Tiber, Girolama and her female friends are at work, helping other women with childbirths and foretelling their futures. Elsewhere in the city, a young wife, Anna, must find a way to escape her abusive husband. But in a city made by men for men, there are no easy paths out.
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A Plague of Serpents
- Daniel Pursglove, Book 4
- By: K. J. Maitland
- Narrated by: Matt Addis
- Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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London, 1608. Three years after the Gunpowder Treason, the King's enemies prepare to strike again. Daniel Pursglove is tasked by royal command with one final mission: he must infiltrate the Serpents - a secret group of Catholics plotting to kill the King - or risk his own execution. But other conspirators are circling, men who would blackmail Daniel for their own dark ends. In the Serpents' den, nothing is quite as it seems. And when Daniel spies a familiar face among their number, the game takes a dangerous turn.
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The Rest of His Days
- By: Pamela Taylor
- Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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When Sir Guy promised Will's dying mother he'd look after her son, he couldn't imagine where that oath would lead. So he takes Will on as a man-at-arms for the worst job in England—guarding the deposed king. Will's fondness for making friends in the tavern and for the occasional company of barmaids runs contrary to Guy's personal code of honor-devotion to God and king. But the young man is a competent soldier and well-liked, so Guy settles for the occasional, public admonishment to keep the others from going down what he considers Will's path of dissolution.
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Lady's Rock
- By: Sue Lawrence
- Narrated by: Angela Ness
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Highland Scotland was no place for a woman in the early 1500s. Life was turbulent and short, battles were waged, and sisters and daughters were traded as pawns in marriage. Catherine Campbell was one such young bride, betrothed to Lachlan Maclean and sent from her fine home to join him on the Isle of Mull, to bear his sons and heirs. But Lachlan proved to be nothing like the man of Catherine’s dreams, and she was forced to resign herself to enduring life with him for the sake of duty. Until the day when he threatened to take away the one thing she couldn’t sacrifice: her daughter.
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The Serpent and the Rose
- A Novel
- By: Catherine Butterfield
- Narrated by: Catherine Butterfield
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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In 16th century France, Marguerite de Valois is growing up in one of Europe's most dysfunctional families - the Medici clan. Their extreme inbreeding has led to an alarming number of genetic defects in France's kings. Marguerite alone has escaped this curse. Uncharacteristically beautiful, intelligent, and sane, she is seen as a useful pawn by her mother, Catherine de Medici. In a scheme to unite the country during the raging religious wars, the queen decides to marry her Catholic daughter to Protestant Henri, Prince of Navarre, a charming libertine.
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False Mistress
- Marwood Family Tudor Saga, Book 3
- By: Amy Licence
- Narrated by: Esther Wane
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Thomasin Marwood is one of Queen Catherine's ladies-in-waiting at the court of Henry VIII, and she does not trust Lady Anne Boleyn. But when an accident forces Thomasin and her family to take refuge at the Boleyn family home at Hever Castle, Thomasin is entrusted with an unexpected mission by Anne's mother.
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The Book of Secrets
- By: Anna Mazzola
- Narrated by: Genevieve Gaunt
- Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Rome, 1659. Months after the plague has ravaged Rome, men are still dying in unnatural numbers, and rumour has it that their corpses do not decay as they should. The Papal authorities commission prosecutor Stefano Bracchi to investigate, telling him he will need considerable mettle to reach the truth. To the west of the Tiber, Girolama and her female friends are at work, helping other women with childbirths and foretelling their futures. Elsewhere in the city, a young wife, Anna, must find a way to escape her abusive husband. But in a city made by men for men, there are no easy paths out.